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2014

BLENDING AND TRENDINGBoston's Hottest Sommeliers Stir Up The Vat With Blended Wines

BY VICTORIA ABBOTT RICCARDI

Sommeliers are the new rock stars of the restaurant world, and Boston has a gifted crop who live and breathe wine as passionately as the stressed-out heroes in last year’s acclaimed documentary Somm. Here are three young guns to watch, including what they’re pouring.

FORBESGREAT URBAN WEEKEND ESCAPES: BOSTON, MA

April 2014

Welcome back to “Great Urban Weekend Escapes.” Today we visit Beantown, rich in American history, colonial charm, family friendliness, cuisine and most of all, luxury hotels. Oddly, Boston has more Forbes 5-Star hotels per capita than any major city in the world – deluxe accommodations are something it excels at. To put this in perspective, Boston is just the 21st largest city in the country, but only six of the twenty bigger cities have even a single 5-star – while Boston has three. Only New York, Vegas and LA have more, while many big cities, including Philadelphia, Denver, New Orleans, Minneapolis and St. Louis don’t have a 5-star between them. Texas has six cities bigger than Boston, including San Antonio, Houston and Dallas, but none have a 5-star hotel. Atlanta and DC each manage one, while the entire state of Hawaii has two, and large states like Ohio, Connecticut and New Jersey are 5-starless. To put it another way, Boston has many charms and you certainly won’t rough it while enjoying them.

2012

THE BOSTON GLOBE: TOP PLACES TO WORK 2012, MEDIUM SIZED COMPANY

The hotel is the highest-ranked medium company in this year’s Top Places to Work survey, and the respect management shows to its staff is a big reason the employees rave about working there.

The managers at the Boston waterfront hotel, one of just three five-star properties in the city, know that in order to deliver the highest level of service, workers need to feel like five-star employees.